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Researchers head to Nunavut to assess Arctic challenges for robots

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 15:50 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 15:59
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Robots that can function in the Arctic’s extreme storms and cold will become increasingly important for everything from securing and

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Crawling robot patrols Alaska pipeline’s formerly ‘unpiggable’ pipes

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, July 6, 2015 at 13:41 — Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2015 at 20:51
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In the trans-Alaska pipeline’s early days there was just a pig, a large projectile sliding through pipe with the flow of crude oil,

A prototype of GROVER, minus its solar panels, was tested in January 2012 at a ski resort in Idaho. The laptop in the picture is for testing purposes only and is not mounted on the final prototype. (Gabriel Trisca, Boise State University, NASA)

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NASA rover roaming Greenland’s ice sheet

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:58
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A NASA rover known as GROVER is roaming Greenland to collect data that may help scientists better understand changes to